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Show BUT LITTLE REAL NEWS IN WAR 20NE. Without news, other than that from the censors, the people In the war zone in Europe have been poorly ad-Alseu ad-Alseu as to the movements of the armies and. as a result many wild rumors are circulated and accepted as truth V ill Irwin, writing for Collier's, Col-lier's, relates this experience in Brussels: Brus-sels: When the German army passed through Brussels, they were far ahead of their sources of new information; and the Belgians, of course, had no news at all. In one day. a German officer assured me, part of the British fleet had been defeated and destroyed in detail and a Belgian declared that four German dreadnoughts had gone cloun The real news, which leaked through somehow, that Japan had de-da' de-da' ed war on Germany, brought its trail of rumors about the United States. The Germans heard and stated it on authority, that the United States had taken this occasion to de rlare war on the allies; that we were sending our fleet to assist Germany Each side was equally positive when I told them that these reports were beyond possibility. A detail of troops could not enter or leave a Belgian city but some one started a story of a. victory or a defeat I had been to Mon3 and learned for a certainty that the left of the allied line had been turned and driven back. I re turned to Brussels with this piece of iil'ws; the Brussels folk mostly receiv ed it with an expression of dumb miser. But some there were who contradicted me They had heard they were sure that the French had wen and were sweeping the Germans back that way When I first entered Brussels the English had not yet announced an-nounced the position of their army Poople in Brussels told me circnm s-tanttally that the English had been seen bock of Liege, on the border of Hollaed, at Ostend, and on the French border " The people of Germany today do I not now that the German forces were I driven back from near Paris and suf-i suf-i feped the same rout that attended the retreat of the Iiritlsh from Mons. So far not one word has come out of Berlin by wireless to account for the presence today of the Germans on the River Aisne, 60 miles north of Paris, instead of at Coulommiers. southeast of Paris where they wore on September Septem-ber 6, two months ap;o. Neither the French nor German reports re-ports have placed much stress on I their own reverses, 1 but both have dwelt at length on their successes |